DISGRACEFUL SCENES
PROTESTERS DISTURB CHURCH SERVICE VICAR MOBBED London, February 19. A strong police force with difficulty coped with a mob of thousands at St. Cuthbert’s Church, Darwen, where the scenes were the most disgraceful yet. Twelve hundred protesters inside the church, some standing on seats, demonstrated against the sung Eucharist, by singing 38 hymns, loudly coughing and talking. Sixty of the vicar’s supporters endeavouring to follow the curate, the Rev. Norman Crawshaw’s celebration of the service, were silenced in the uproar, though they persevered from 9.30 until noon. The vicar mounted the pulpit and tried for two hours to preach. Eventually he briefly delivered a message to his followers amid a volume of hostile psalmody, concluding with the National Anthem.
The vicar proceeded home between lines of police, whom a hooting crowd of 8000 charged, knocking the vicar and several constables into a shrubbery. Mounted police rescued the vicar. A skirmish near the vicarage was followed by the crowd dispersing half an hour later.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 122, 21 February 1928, Page 8
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165DISGRACEFUL SCENES Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 122, 21 February 1928, Page 8
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